-$100m well being drilled at shelter belt Hotels, hospitals, restaurants and other service providers in Georgetown are being urged to store water as the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) further reduces the supply to the city in the face of a deepening crisis caused by the prolonged drought.
Police Constable Ray Simon lost his life yesterday after he apparently jumped from a moving GuySuCo truck, on which he had been hitching a ride.
The inability of Region Two’s farmers to access water for their farmlands was among the complaints members of government heard during a public outreach at Perth, Essequibo Coast yesterday.
A Haslington seaman was yesterday denied bail by a city court after being charged over a quantity of cannabis that was found in air cargo.
Two Sentinel Security guards are nursing gunshot wounds after armed men launched a surprise attack at the Movie Towne construction site located at Pattensen, East Coast Demerara early yesterday morning.
Seelall Pharbu yesterday walked out the High Court a free man after a jury unanimously found him not guilty of unlawfully killing his cousin, Permaul Rampersaud, who the court heard had been shot while Pharbu was securing his gun.
The depositions of two absent witnesses were read into evidence in the trial of Leon Duncan, who is accused of murdering Imtiaz Roopnarine at the Cool Square Hotel in Georgetown.
A witness yesterday told a court that she saw when murder accused Orin Jerrick threw punches at minibus driver Gavin Fiffee, who then armed himself with a cutlass and retaliated.
A fourth man was charged yesterday with the armed robbery of the Bank of Baroda branch at Mon Repos, from where over $2 million was stolen.
Businessman Lloyd Singh was a major financier of the building at Railway Line, Kitty which now houses the Alliance For Change (AFC) headquarters, party leader Khemraj Ramjattan disclosed on Saturday.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – More than 3,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday, as the disease continues its rapid spread across the Americas.
The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Clifton Gibson, Linton Eastman and Stancy Rodney, the men accused of killing Rubis accountant Jason Cort, began yesterday with the testimony of the fiancée of the deceased.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A suspended deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic cannot claim diplomatic immunity to avoid U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Two cases of Zika being transmitted through blood transfusions were reported in Brazil yesterday, adding to concerns over the virus that has been linked to severe birth defects and is typically spread through mosquito bites.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s president promised yesterday to leave power in three days’ time despite having no replacement after a botched election, as opposition protests intensified and politicians squabbled over who should lead an interim government.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said yesterday he will ask the U.S.
Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), the Nation’s supplier of Water and Sanitation Services, advises of another decrease in the level of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) due to the prolonged dry season.
Two Sentinel Security guards are nursing gunshot wounds after trading bullets with armed men who launched a surprise attack at the Movie Towne construction site located at Pattensen, East Coast Demerara early this morning.
Investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 0650h.
About 2200h. last night, the police say that Saitanya Kishundyal, 21 years, of Rosehall, Corentyne, was closing the gate to his residence when he was confronted by a man armed with a firearm during which there was a scuffle and he was shot to his abdomen and the assailant escaped.
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